Vol. 101 No. 2 March/April 2016 Tel: 727.733.2597 www.dunedin192.com Chapter & Council — 1st Wed. Commandry — 4th Thursday All meetings—7:30pm YORK RITE REGULAR Meeting 1st Tuesday 7:00opm Brethren, WOW!!! What an amazing and busy year so far! From the officer installation on January 9th to the historic Cen- tennial Celebration on January 16th, two stated communi- cations, the presentation of our proclamation at the Dune- din City Commission meeting on January 21st, to a very well done and successful EA degree performed for our new Brother Greg Brown on January 25th, to the painting of our lodge fellowship hall, to holding our first 5 year planning session and finally to our hosting of a Zone 6 / District 20 / MLT Workshop on February 6th we have kicked butt and taken names! I am so proud of all of you who have contributed to our success and I look forward to pushing forward with all of you as the year unfolds. Up next in March we will start holding a special Masonic Education evening once per month as we have done over the past few years. This first education evening will be held on Monday March 7th at 7 PM immediately follow- ing our lodge officers meeting which will start at 6 PM. Also, on March 28th we will hold the first of four festive boards for the year so plan to bring your family along to share in the good food and fellowship! Location is still TBD for this one but information will be pushed out via email once a location is chosen. During our first 5 year planning session we discussed several action items to enhance the lodge experience and our income as well. Included in these items were to pro- mote the lodge in the community as a rental space for certain types of events that do not involve alcohol and currently we have two weeks reserved for this summer. I encourage you all to let people know our lodge is availa- ble and to contact our Secretary Mike Palenik for details. NOTICE — Brothers, in the event of the passing of a Masonic Brother, if a Masonic funeral service is requested, please contact the Lodge's Secretary W. Mike Palenik, at 727/733-4257 [email protected]Donations for the service are appreciated . Also, don't forget the Lodge in your will. Chartered 1916 Dunedin Lodge No. 192 F.&A.M. Dunedin, Florida From the East … Also discussed were items such as continuing to park cars for special events during the year, holding a raffle at every meeting, holding special masonic education events to en- hance our overall experience, development of a cook book filled with the favorite recipes of Brothers from not only Dunedin Lodge but the other lodges in the District as well, inviting speakers from the community to present topics of interest on occasion, holding a lodge scavenger hunt like we have done in years past to increase our Brothers knowledge of our history, holding more festive boards each year and holding a special table lodge for the Brethren each year as well. To further our community outreach I have contacted the Pinellas County Habitat for Humanity office for infor- mation on how we can help contribute to the building of homes here in Dunedin. When I get more info I will inform you all. Let me leave you with a quote for thought about our gentle craft: “Many writers and thinkers have tried to define Free- masonry but it really defeats definition. It is too complex, too profound in conception to be easily expressed in words. Perhaps the simplest and best definition of all is the phrase "the brotherhood of man under the fatherhood of God." Our Masonic forefathers had an understanding of human needs and human aspirations. They may never have dreamed of the mindless computer which governs our lives, or the fis- sion of matter which threatens our lives, but they understood human nature and what motivates the spirit of man. Thus from a simple process of using stone and mortar for building they progressed to the most important of life’s functions, “The building of character.” –Bro. Louis L. Williams For the Good of the Order Bro. Robert Frierson Worshipful Master EAST GATE LODGE
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Vol. 101 No. 2
March/April 2016
Tel: 727.733.2597
www.dunedin192.com
Chapter & Council — 1st Wed.
Commandry — 4th Thursday
All meetings—7:30pm
YORK RITE R EGUL A R
Meeting 1st Tuesday
7:00opm
Brethren,
WOW!!! What an amazing and busy year so far! From
the officer installation on January 9th to the historic Cen-
tennial Celebration on January 16th, two stated communi-
cations, the presentation of our proclamation at the Dune-
din City Commission meeting on January 21st, to a very
well done and successful EA degree performed for our
new Brother Greg Brown on January 25th, to the painting
of our lodge fellowship hall, to holding our first 5 year
planning session and finally to our hosting of a Zone 6 /
District 20 / MLT Workshop on February 6th we have
kicked butt and taken names! I am so proud of all of you
who have contributed to our success and I look forward to
pushing forward with all of you as the year unfolds. Up
next in March we will start holding a special Masonic
Education evening once per month as we have done over
the past few years. This first education evening will be
held on Monday March 7th at 7 PM immediately follow-
ing our lodge officers meeting which will start at 6 PM.
Also, on March 28th we will hold the first of four festive
boards for the year so plan to bring your family along to
share in the good food and fellowship! Location is still
TBD for this one but information will be pushed out via
email once a location is chosen.
During our first 5 year planning session we discussed
several action items to enhance the lodge experience and
our income as well. Included in these items were to pro-
mote the lodge in the community as a rental space for
certain types of events that do not involve alcohol and
currently we have two weeks reserved for this summer. I
encourage you all to let people know our lodge is availa-
ble and to contact our Secretary Mike Palenik for details.
NOTICE —
Brothers, in the event of the passing of a Masonic Brother,
if a Masonic funeral service is requested, please contact the
Lodge's Secretary W. Mike Palenik, at 727/733-4257
the lodge room and we have some other upgrades and projects that will get done thru out the year. If the craft has any ideas of improvement’s, I encourage everyone to come to a stated meeting let us know.
Also, I’m looking for some “different” ideas for dinner’s at the lodge meeting’s, so if there is anything that you might like to see on the menu that we haven’t done yet, please let me know! For this Trestle board, I thought about doing a poem called “5 points of symbolism”.
“Foot to foot that we may go, where our help we can bestow;
Pointing out the better way, lest our broth-ers go astray.
Thus our steps should always lead, To the souls that are in need.
Knee to knee, that we may share Every brother’s needs in prayer:
Giving all his wants a place, when we seek the throne of grace.
In our thoughts from day to day, for each other we should pray.
Breast to breast, to there conceal, what our lips must not reveal;
When a brother does confide, we must by his will abide.
Masons to us known, we must Cherish as our own.
Hand to back, our love to show, to the brother, bending low:
Underneath a load of care, which we may and ought to share.
That the weak may always stand, let us lend a helping hand.
Cheek to cheek, or mouth to ear, that our lips may whisper cheer
To our brother in distress, whom our words can aid and bless
Warn him if he fails to see, dangers that are known to thee.
Foot to foot, knee to knee and breast to breast, as brothers we:
Hand to back and mouth to ear, then that mystic word we hear,
Which we otherwise conceal, but on these five points reveal.”
Justin Sparks
Junior Warden
By The Plumb
My Brothers,
I don’t mean to be negative in my messages but I feel it is one of my responsibilities to make sure the Lodge is finan-
cially solvent and money is not wasted. We still have 31 brothers who have not paid their dues for 2016. At the end
of March these members will be 3 months late in paying their dues and I am required to send out late dues notices. These will be sent out by mail
which requires extra postage not to mention the extra time required to prepare and mail them.
Brothers, this is over 18% of our membership. Please look at your dues cards to make
sure they are current and, if not, send in your 2016 dues.
